Memorial Park may refer to either a public park dedicated in memorial to an event, or a cemetery (modern term for such):
Parks
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Bulimba Memorial Park
Bulimba Memorial Park is a heritage-listed park at 129 Oxford Street, Bulimba, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1919 to 1980s. It is also known as Bulimba Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Park and Jamieson Park. It was added to the Queenslan ...
, Bulimba, Brisbane, Queensland
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Toowong Memorial Park, Toowoong, Brisbane, Queensland
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Yeronga Memorial Park
Yeronga Memorial Park is a heritage-listed park at Ipswich Road, Yeronga, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The park has an area of and is one of the oldest in Brisbane, having been established in 1882, and has been a World War I memo ...
, Yeronga, Brisbane, Queensland
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Kangaroo Ground War Memorial Park
Kangaroo Ground War Memorial Park is located at 385 Eltham Yarra Glen Road, Kangaroo Ground, Victoria, Kangaroo Ground in the Shire of Nillumbik. in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The site includes the war memorial, with a firespotting ...
, Melbourne, Victoria
; Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Vraca Memorial Park
The Vraca Memorial Park ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Spomen-park Vraca'' / Спомен-парк Враца) is a park dedicated to the World War II victims in Sarajevo. It covers 78,000 square meters and mentions the names of over 11,000 m ...
, Sarajevo
; Canada
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Memorial Provincial Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba
; Philippines
Forest Lake Memorial Park; China
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King George V Memorial Park, Kowloon
King George V Memorial Park, Kowloon is a park in Jordan, Kowloon, Hong Kong, located beside Canton Road. There are two parks of this name in Hong Kong. The other one is in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong Island.
History
The park was built in 1940. ...
; Denmark
* Jutland Memorial Park, see
Sea War Museum Jutland#War memorial
; France
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Australian Memorial Park
The Australian Memorial Park is a World War I memorial, located near Fromelles, France, commemorating Australians killed during the Battle of Fromelles.
Location
The memorial park is located approximately from the V.C. Corner Australian Cemete ...
, near Fromelles
; Hungary
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Memorial Park, Budapest also called Memento Park
; India
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Ambedkar Memorial Park
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Saraighat War Memorial Park
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Smritivan Earthquake Memorial and Museum
Smritivan Earthquake Memorial and Museum is a memorial park dedicated to the victims of 2001 Gujarat earthquake and museum on Bhujiyo Hill in Bhuj, Kutch district (Kachchh), Gujarat, India. It has seven blocks with displays on seven different ...
; Japan
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Asahiyama Memorial Park
is a park located in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. The park's peak, at above sea level, offers a great panoramic view of Sapporo, and the Sea of Japan beyond.
History
Prior to the construction of Maruyama Park, the area was the site ...
, Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear attack at the end of World War II, and to the memorie ...
; Malaysia
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Sandakan Memorial Park, Malaysian state of Sabah
Poland
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The Great Synagogue Memorial Park in Oświęcim
The Great Synagogue Memorial Park in Oświęcim is a memorial park devoted to the Great Synagogue in Oświęcim, Poland. The Synagogue was destroyed at the beginning of the Second World War.
Location
The park is located at Berka Joselewicza S ...
; New Zealand
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Memorial Park, Hamilton
Hamilton East is a suburb in central Hamilton in New Zealand. The suburb's primary commercial and retail precinct is located along Grey Street. Hamilton East is characterised by villas and bungalows built early in the 20th century.
History
Ham ...
, New Zealand
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Memorial Park, Manurewa, a stadium in New Zealand
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Memorial Park, Masterton
Memorial Park, also known as Trust House Memorial Park for sponsorship reasons and formerly as Cameron and Soldiers' Park, is a sports facility which is located in Masterton, Wellington region, New Zealand. The two main sports that are played on ...
, a stadium in New Zealand
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Memorial Park, Motueka
Memorial Park is a cricket ground in Motueka, Tasman, New Zealand.
Memorial Park is jointly owned by Tasman District Council and Wakatū Incorporation, a company representing 4,000 shareholders who are descendants of the original Te Tau Ihu M ...
, a stadium in Motueka, Tasman
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Memorial Park, Palmerston North, a stadium in New Zealand
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Memorial Park, Lower Hutt, a stadium in New Zealand
;Serbia
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Memorial Park Jajinci
Memorial Park Jajinci is located on the territory of Belgrade municipality Voždovac, on the 11th kilometre on the way to the Аvala mountain. It was built in the location of the military shooting range used by the Armed Forces of the Kingdom of ...
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Šumarice Memorial Park
; Taiwan
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Barclay Memorial Park
The Barclay Memorial Park () is a memorial park in Chongming Village, East District, Tainan, Taiwan.
Name
The park was named after Thomas Barclay, a British missionary to Taiwan in 1875–1935.
History
In 1993, the park area was actually desi ...
, Tainan
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Chiang Wei-shui Memorial Park, Taipei
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Green Island White Terror Memorial Park, Taitung
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Kinmen Peace Memorial Park
The Kinmen Peace Memorial Park ( zh, t=金門和平紀念園區, s=金门和平纪念园区, first=t, p=Jīnmén Hépíng Jìniàn Yuánqū) is a memorial park in Jinning Township, Kinmen County, Taiwan.
History
The memorial park was establishe ...
, Kinmen
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Military Memorial Park
The Military Memorial Park () is a memorial park at Mount Tiezhan, Dajia District, Taichung, Taiwan.
History
The construction of the park began in July 1958 for its first stage in which the memorial hall was built. The second stage saw the comp ...
, Taichung
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Tang Te-chang Memorial Park
The Tang Te-chang Memorial Park () is a memorial park in West Central District, Tainan, Taiwan to commemorate late lawyer Tang Te-chang.
History
Empire of Japan
In 1907, local residents erected a statue of Kodama Gentarō, the fourth Govern ...
, Tainan
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War and Peace Memorial Park and Theme Hall
The War and Peace Memorial Park and Theme Hall () is a memorial in Cijin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It commemorates Republic of China Armed Forces who died during the Chinese Civil War, Korean War and Pacific War.
History
The idea for the e ...
, Kaohsiung
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War and Peace Memorial Park Exhibition Center
The War and Peace Memorial Park Exhibition Center () is a gallery in Beigan Township, Lienchiang County, Taiwan.
History
The area around the gallery used to be the Stronghold #06, #08 and #12 during the Chinese Civil War. The planning to establ ...
, Lienchiang
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Wushe Incident Memorial Park
The Wushe Incident Memorial Park () is a memorial park in Ren'ai Township, Nantou County, Taiwan commemorating the Musha Incident in 1930.
History
The park was set up by the government to commemorate the Seediq people who perished during the ...
, Nantou
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Xiaolin Village Memorial Park
The Xiaolin Village Memorial Park () is a memorial park in Siaolin Village, Jiasian District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The park commemorates victims of the Typhoon Morakot in 2009.
History
In the aftermath of Typhoon Morakot, Magistrate Yang Chiu-hs ...
, Kaohsiung
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Zhenge Daidan Memorial Park, Lienchiang
; Trinidad and Tobago
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Memorial Park, Port of Spain
; United Kingdom
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Forster Memorial Park
Forster Memorial Park, is a public park in London Borough of Lewisham. It takes up the land between Bellingham Road and Whitefoot Lane, Catford – the park and surrounding roads form Southend or Southend Village. The nearest stations are Belling ...
, Lewisham, London
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War Memorial Park, Coventry
The War Memorial Park is a large park of about 48.5 hectares in southern Coventry, England. The park was opened in July 1921 as a tribute to the 2,587 Coventrians who died between 1914 and 1918 fighting in the First World War. The landscaped ga ...
; United States of America
;; Alaska
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Growden Memorial Park
Growden Memorial Park is an outdoor park in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States.Originally called Memorial Park, the park was renamed in 1964 in memory of James Growden who, along with his two sons, lost his life in the tsunami created by the Good ...
, Fairbanks, Alaska
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Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park
Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park is a sports facility complex in Juneau City and Borough, Alaska, Juneau, Alaska, and adjacent to Floyd Dryden Middle School. It was named after Richard James Adair and Jimmy Earl Kennedy, two Juneau Police Department of ...
, Juneau, Alaska
;; Arizona
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Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza
The Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza is an urban park and gathering place in front of the Arizona state capitol complex in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. One of the Phoenix Points of Pride, it is the site of various memorials honoring prominent figures, w ...
, Phoenix, Arizona
;; California
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Memorial Park (San Mateo County, California)
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Memorial Park (Los Angeles Metro station), on the Metro Gold Line of Los Angeles County Metro Rail
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Memorial Park (Hayward, California)
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Sierra Madre Memorial Park
Sierra Madre Memorial Park is a historic landmark park in Sierra Madre, California. The public park is dedicated to Sierra Madre residents who have served in the U.S. Armed forces. The park has monuments, a band shell, tennis court, playground ...
in
Sierra Madre, California
Sierra Madre (Spanish for "mother range") is a city in Los Angeles County, California, whose population was 10,917 at the 2010 U.S. Census, up from 10,580 at the time of the 2000 U.S. Census. The city is in the foothills of the San Gabriel Vall ...
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Will Rogers Memorial Park
The Will Rogers Memorial Park is a public park in Beverly Hills, California.
Location
Shaped like a triangle, the park is surrounded by West Sunset Boulevard, North Canon Drive and North Beverly Drive.Sue McAllisterPop Singer George Michael Ar ...
, Beverly Hills, California
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Hart Memorial Park
Hart Memorial Park (commonly called Hart Park) is a large public park in Kern County, California. It is located just north of Bakersfield (specifically the Northeast region). The park is , and contains two lakes and three canals. It was named af ...
, Bakersfield, California
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Donner Memorial State Park
Donner Memorial State Park is a state park of California, US, preserving the site of the Donner Camp, where members of the ill-fated Donner Party were trapped by weather during the winter of 1846–1847. Caught without shelter or adequate sup ...
California
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Leo J. Ryan Memorial Park
Leo J. Ryan Memorial Park is a recreational city park, located in Foster City, California and run by the city government and local citizens. Originally called simply "Central Park", the park was named in honor and memory of Congressman Leo J. Rya ...
, Foster City, California
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Memorial Park (Hayward, California)
;; Colorado
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Memorial Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado
;; Connecticut
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Harkness Memorial State Park, Waterford, Connecticut
;; Florida
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Memorial Park (Jacksonville)
Memorial Park is a public park, located on the St. Johns River in Riverside, one of the most historic neighborhoods near downtown Jacksonville, Florida. It is the third-oldest park in the city, and was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
, Florida
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Ronnie Van Zant Memorial Park
The Ronnie Van Zant Memorial Park is a public memorial park located in Lake Asbury, Clay County, Florida. The park was built in memory of Ronnie Van Zant, vocalist of Southern rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, who died along with numerous other band mem ...
, Lake Asbury, Clay County
;; Georgia
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Memorial Park (Athens, Georgia)
;; Iowa
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Veterans Memorial Park (Davenport, Iowa)
;; Massachusetts
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Seekonk Veterans Memorial Park, Seekonk, Massachusetts
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War Memorial Park (West Bridgewater, Massachusetts)
;; Missouri
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Memorial Park (Raymore)
;; Nebraska
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Memorial Park (Omaha)
Memorial Park is a 65-acre park located at 6005 Underwood Avenue near the Dundee, Nebraska, Dundee neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska. The park was created as a memorial for all of the men and women from Douglas County, Nebraska, Douglas County who h ...
, Nebraska
;; New York
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Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park is a park in the hamlet of Oyster Bay, New York, honoring President Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.
History
Land that the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park presently occupies used to be on ...
Oyster Bay, New York
;; North Carolina
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Julian Price Memorial Park
Julian Price Memorial Park is a park of at the foot of Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, named in honor of Julian Price. It is at milepost 297 on the Blue Ridge Parkway and directly adjacent to the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park. Together the ...
North Carolina
;; Oklahoma
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Washington Irving Memorial Park and Arboretum
Washington Irving Memorial Park and Arboretum (32.5 acres) is a public park and arboretum located just north of the Arkansas River Bridge at 13700 S. Memorial Drive, Bixby, Oklahoma. The park is named in honor of American writer Washington Irving, ...
, Bixby, Oklahoma
;; Oregon
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Klamath Falls Veterans Memorial Park, Oregon
;; Pennsylvania
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Memorial Park Site
The Memorial Park Site (designated 36CN164) is an archaeological site located near the confluence of Bald Eagle Creek and the West Branch Susquehanna River in Lock Haven in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Research projects conducted at the site ...
Pennsylvania
;; Rhode Island
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Miantonomi Memorial Park
Miantonomi Memorial Park is a public park between Hillside Avenue and Girard Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.
The Narragansett Indians used the area around the park for hundreds of years and the park (and the hill it is on) is named after Sachem ...
, Newport, Rhode Island
;; Tennessee
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Memorial Park Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee)
Memorial Park Cemetery was founded in 1924 by E. Clovis Hinds on initial 54 acres (.22 km2).http://www.memorialparkfuneralandcemetery.com/?page=pg__aboutus Memorial Park Cemetery website It is located at 5668 Poplar Avenue in Memphis, ...
;; Texas
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Memorial Park, Houston, Texas
;; Wyoming
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George Washington Memorial Park (Jackson, Wyoming)
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American Memorial Park
American Memorial Park on the island of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, was created as a memorial honoring the sacrifices made during the Marianas Campaign of World War II. Recreational facilities, a World War II museum and flag monument kee ...
, island of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Cemeteries
; Australia
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Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Eastern Suburbs Crematorium and Botany General Cemetery (aka Botany Cemetery), is a cemetery and crematorium on Bunnerong Road in Matraville, New South Wales, in the eastern suburbs district of Sydney, Australia.
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, Sydney, New South Wales
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Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park
Fawkner Memorial Park is located in the north-western Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Victoria, Australia. It is the largest cemetery by land size in the state, and managed by Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.
Merlynston Creek, a tributary ...
, Melbourne, Victoria
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Memorial Park Cemetery (Albany, Western Australia)
; Denmark
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Ryvangen Memorial Park
Ryvangen Memorial Park ( da, Mindelunden i Ryvangen) is a memorial park in Ryvangen officially inaugurated on 5 May 1950 to commemorate fallen members of the Danish resistance to the German occupation of Denmark during World War II.
The locatio ...
, Copenhagen, Denmark
; New Zealand
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Bolton Street Memorial Park, Wellington
; Taiwan
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Xiaolin Village Memorial Park
The Xiaolin Village Memorial Park () is a memorial park in Siaolin Village, Jiasian District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The park commemorates victims of the Typhoon Morakot in 2009.
History
In the aftermath of Typhoon Morakot, Magistrate Yang Chiu-hs ...
, Kaohsiung
; United Kingdom
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War Memorial Park, Coventry
The War Memorial Park is a large park of about 48.5 hectares in southern Coventry, England. The park was opened in July 1921 as a tribute to the 2,587 Coventrians who died between 1914 and 1918 fighting in the First World War. The landscaped ga ...
, England
; United States of America
;; Alaska
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Anchorage Memorial Park
The Anchorage Memorial Park, also known as Anchorage Cemetery, is a cemetery located in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. Covering nine city blocks, the cemetery separates the city's downtown and Fairview neighborhoods.
The cemetery was e ...
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Central Memorial Park
Central Memorial Park is a park located in central Calgary's Beltline district. Sometimes referred to as ''Central Park'' or as ''Memorial Park'', the area is home to the Memorial Park Library, an equestrian statue of Russell Lambert Boyle, and a ...
, Calgary, Alberta
;; Arizona
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Pioneer and Military Memorial Park
The Pioneer and Military Memorial Park is the official name given to seven historic cemeteries in Phoenix, Arizona. The cemeteries were founded in 1884 in what was known as "Block 32". On February 1, 2007, "Block 32" was renamed Pioneer and Milita ...
, Phoenix, Arizona
;; California
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California. It is the original and current flagship location of Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries, a chain of six cemeteries and four additional mortuaries in Southern Ca ...
, California
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Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries is an American corporation that owns and operates a chain of cemeteries and mortuaries in Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties in Southern California.
History
The company was founded by a group of ...
(list)
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Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery
Grand View Memorial Park and Crematory is a historic cemetery located in Glendale, California, in the United States. Established in 1884 as Glendale Cemetery, it changed its name to Grand View Memorial Park in 1919. The cemetery was the focus of ...
, Glendale, California
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Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
The Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary is a Jewish cemetery located at 6001 West Centinela Avenue, in Culver City, California. Many Jews from the entertainment industry are buried here. The cemetery is known for Al Jolson's elaborate tomb (design ...
, Culver City, California,
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Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery is the largest Jewish cemetery organization in California.
History
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, owned by Sinai Temple of Los Angeles, refers to two Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles metropo ...
, Los Angeles, California
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Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California
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Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 10621 Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood and Burbank, California.
The cemetery has an entrance called the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation that is the final resting place for aviation ...
, North Hollywood
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Desert Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California
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Memorial Park (San Mateo County, California)
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Eden Memorial Park Cemetery, San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles
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El Camino Memorial Park
El Camino Memorial Park cemetery is located at 5600 Carroll Canyon Road in the Sorrento Valley neighborhood of San Diego. Founded in 1960,Mallios, Seth and Caterino, David M. Cemeteries of San Diego. Arcadia Publishing. 2007. p.96 El Camino is ...
, San Diego, California
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Alta Mesa Memorial Park
Alta Mesa Memorial Park is a non-denominational burial ground located in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California. It was established in 1904 as a 72-acre cemetery. It includes traditional burial plots, a mausoleum and a columbarium.
Notable b ...
Palo Alto, California
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Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
The Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 22601 Lassen Street, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California. It is the resting place for several movie stars such as Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gloria Grahame, and Stephen Boyd.
History and descri ...
, Chatsworth, California
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Oakwood Memorial Park (Santa Cruz, California)
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Cypress Lawn Memorial Park Colma, California
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Greenwood Memorial Park (San Diego), San Diego, California
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Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California
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Skylawn Memorial Park (San Mateo, California)
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Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery (Colma, California)
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Hills of Eternity Memorial Park
Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, also known as Giboth Olam, is a Jewish cemetery founded in 1889, and is located at 1301 El Camino Real (California), El Camino Real, in Colma, California. This cemetery is owned by Congregation Sherith Israel (San ...
, Colma
;; Hawaii
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Valley of the Temples Memorial Park, Hawaiian island of Oʻahu
;; Michigan
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Glen Eden Lutheran Memorial Park, Livonia, Michigan
;; New Jersey
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George Washington Memorial Park (Paramus, New Jersey)
George Washington Memorial Park is a cemetery located in Paramus, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It was established in 1939 as a "whites only" cemetery.
Noted burials
* Vito Trause (1925–2019), United States Army veteran, Worl ...
;; Ohio
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Memorial Park (Columbus)
Memorial Park is located in the south-suburban-Columbus, Ohio, village of Obetz and stretches between the Obetz Government Center and the Street department building, which is at the western end of Orchard Lane. The Obetz Athletic Club is located i ...
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Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery
Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 660 Thompson Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. It is one of the largest cemeteries in Nashville. Among those interred or entombed in the cemetery, there are many prominent members of the country music ge ...
, Nashville, Tennessee
;; Texas
* Conroe Memorial Park, Conroe, Texas
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Greenwood Memorial Park (Fort Worth, Texas) TX
;; Washington
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Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park
Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park originated in 1885. It is located on both sides of Aurora Avenue in Seattle, Washington, and occupies roughly 144 acres (58 ha). It is the largest cemetery in Seattle.
History
At the time of its inception, the a ...
, Seattle, Washington
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Greenwood Memorial Park (Renton, Washington)
Greenwood Memorial Park is a cemetery in the northwest United States, located in Renton, Washington, a suburb southeast of Seattle. It is notable as the resting place of rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970), a Seattle native; over  ...
Other
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Memorial Park (Los Angeles Metro station)
See also
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Memorial Field (disambiguation)
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